The dilemma of divorce -- Kills bugs dead -- Immunity interference -- A powerful attraction -- Spreading the word -- Making it in the real world -- Research in brief -- Helping head injury victims -- Genetics and dental plaque

Preface -- Life on the swamp -- Bringing up baby -- To tell the truth: subliminal seduction -- Solving the problem of pain -- Federal health plans: a new prescription? -- Henry King filming America -- Research

It's the beginning of the academic year and you'll find more than VCU Today with a new look. Some university officials are shedding their old titles to don new ones in accordance with the President's reorganization plan.

Students. Look at them. They're different. Real different. The present generation's predecessors gathered in malt shops and danced at sock hops. Then there were protest rallies and sit-ins. But now the terms conservative and liberal have new...

VCU holds the line on tuition increases, registering only a two percent hike this year compared to a national average increase of 7.8 percent. However, VCU still leads other major Virginia public universities with the highest tuition bill for state...

Students. Look at them. They're different. Real different. The present generation's predecessors gathered in malt shops and danced at sock hops. Then there were protest rallies and sit-ins. But now the terms conservative and liberal have new...

Recipes. A recipe for a university, for instance. For your base ingredient, start with a campus, in some recipes a pint-sized one, or two. Mix faculty and students in with an equal or greater number of administrators. Pour in a generous portion of...

Another "first" for Virginia! -- Virginia Society of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology clinical sessions scheduled in Baruch Auditorium, November 29-December 2 -- Stuart McGuire Lectures set for December 7-8-9

Bigness. It has its sins. It implies, these days, a government that is too big. It reflects, in the Age of Jogging, adversely on the whipped cream topping on last night's second piece of pecan pie. It spells excess. But General Motors once told us...

Loneliness, says this issue's faculty expert, is the result of being separated from the persons, things, places, and situations that we love. We realize that during the holiday season you may encounter periods of loneliness and depression without...

VCU holds the line on tuition increases, registering only a two percent hike this year compared to a national average increase of 7.8 percent. However, VCU still leads other major Virginia public universities with the highest tuition bill for state...

If a number of requests for university materials is causing you undue stress on the job, come to the publications office. In addition to copies of this poster, faculty and staff may obtain copies of the university's Almanac of Facts, Fact Card,...

Do you show traits of a food junkie? Betty J. Moore, associate professor of nursing and nutrition expert, describes the symptoms in her column, Grease and Greens, which returns to VCU Today in this issue.

There are some lonely hearts at VCU. Sixteen of them in fact. Programs which have nothing in common with anybody else in all of Virginia. It's nice to be unique, but lonely too? After all, being one of a kind sure cuts down on your chances for...

In 1924 a young boy from the village of Ohnistany, Czechoslovakia, made his first public performance as a cellist after having taken lessons for only eight weeks. Traveling to the nearby city of Horace only six months before taking lessons,...

News. Reliable sources report that Virginia Commonwealth University has quietly added to its curriculum more graduate than undergraduate programs. While still unconfirmed, official spokesperson from the university president's office did not deny...

Dagwood joins other comic strip heroes on the walls of the Anderson Gallery beginning today. The exhibit, sponsored by the Virginia Museum and arranged by English department chairman Dr. M. Thomas Inge, will tour the state for the next two years...

The freshman year is a time for exploration and trying things out. To keep the channels of communication open, VCU Today publishes four special parents issues each year. For more on your role as a parent of a college-age student, turn to page 1.

If the November 8 bond issue is approved by Virginia voters, a new building is waiting in the wings to replace the present theatre, fashioned out of a former church, later the Scottish Rite Temple, which was built in the pseudo-Gothic style of 1905.

Extra!! For parents of VCU students and prospective students. A college education can open many new doors into the future. It is the hope of the Office of Admissions that this special issue of VCU Today will open many doors of understanding for...

The international symbol of access represents the hope of independence and mobility to handicapped persons. Wherever it is displayed, the handicapped can be assured that they will not be barred by thoughtless obstacles or prohibited from...

Cranes, trucks, and bulldozers have invaded the MCV Campus. The appearance of hard hats is now official, for university administrators closed the sale of the bond issue for the $110 million MCV Hospital project last week

Students for Bonds have applied a lot of energy urging voters to approve the November 8 bond issue. This poster, drawn by student Ed Hackley of University Graphics, was featured in a special October 18 parents' edition of VCU Today

Instead of growing old gracefully, the university's one-year-old signage system shows traces of premature aging due to faculty manufacturing. The signs are being replaced at no cost to the university with over 60 percent having been corrected.

Bluegrass for Bonds, a country music festival sponsored by the music department in Shafer Court on Sunday, October 2, from 12 to 6 p.m., is just one way the VCU community plans to dramatize the importance of the November 8 bond issue. A three-part...

Preface -- Aging: is the best yet to be? -- A matter of mating -- Forbidden Diary: One woman's window on war -- A European melting pot -- The unfolding of Virginia governorship -- Puzzles of the ostraka -- Weaving a verbal fabric -- Research

Preface -- A strange medium for editorials -- Crystals, symmetry, and biological structure -- Ellen Glasgow and women's suffrage -- Who owns the sun? -- The times they are a-changin' -- From proclamation to art form -- Research

It took 15 issues, but we've finally seen the light at the end of the tunnel. This issue of VCU Today will mark the end of our publishing efforts for the academic year. We will be back in the fall and will attempt to pick up the pieces and start...